Kulebyaka is a Russian dish, but it is being prepared today in many countries. This pastry is especially suitable for a festive table. Kulebyaka is a type of closed meat, fish or vegetable pie with a complex filling. As a rule, this dish is in the form of a loaf.
Kulebyaka with salmon is especially tasty and festive. To prepare this dish you will need:
- flour - 650 g;
- milk - 600 ml;
- eggs - 8 pcs.;
- fresh yeast - 20 g;
- sugar - 30 g;
- salt - 40 g;
- pepper - to taste
- butter - 270 g;
- whole piece of salmon fillet - 2 pcs.;
- onions - 2 pcs.;
- chopped shallots - 1 tablespoon;
- champignons - 200 g;
- parsley greens - 0.5 bunch;
- long grain rice - 200 g;
- vegetable broth - 450 ml;
- thyme - 1 sprig;
- fragrant carnation - 2 flowers;
- sour cream - 200 ml.
Make yeast dough. To do this, dilute yeast in 50 milliliters of warm milk. Stir five chicken eggs with a pinch of salt and 20 grams of sugar. Combine the diluted yeast with the egg mixture and add 500 grams of flour. Knead into a homogeneous elastic dough. Gradually add 200 grams of room temperature butter to the dough while kneading. Knead the dough until it stops sticking to your hands.
Cover the finished dough with a cotton towel or napkin. When the dough has increased in volume, wrinkle it and put it in the refrigerator to fit again.
Prepare salmon fillets. Place it on a baking sheet and place in a well-preheated oven for ten minutes. The oven temperature should be 180 ° C. Remove the salmon fillets from the oven and cover with foil. When the fillet has cooled down, put it in the refrigerator.
For the mushroom filling, finely chop a small onion and shallots and salve them in butter. Add finely chopped mushrooms to a skillet with onions and simmer until the excess liquid evaporates. Season with salt and pepper mushrooms, add finely chopped parsley.
Knead to make thin pancakes. To do this, mix 250 ml of milk and two eggs. Season the mixture with salt. Add flour until you get the desired consistency. Fry thin pancakes on both sides in a pan.
To prevent pancakes from sticking to the surface of the pan when frying, grease it with fat or a small amount of vegetable oil using a special brush.
Prepare the rice filling. Salt chopped onion in butter, add rice, stir. Pour in the hot chicken broth, bring to a boil, cover the pan with a lid. Move the pot of rice to the oven and bake at 180 ° C for half an hour.
Roll out the dough. You do not need to roll it thinly. Place a few pancakes on top of the dough. Spread out the rice filling. Place the salmon fillets on top of the rice. Cover with pancakes. Now place the mushroom filling evenly, on top of which place the salmon fillets. Cover with pancakes again. Now it remains to wrap the cake. Gently grasp the edges of the dough, lift them up and pinch over the filling. Place the kulebyaka on a greased baking sheet.
It is better to lay the kulebyaka with the seam down. Thus, during the baking process, the seam will not disperse, the cake will remain intact.
Before putting the pie in the oven, brush it with yolk. Bake the kulebyaku for thirty minutes at 200 ° C.
